Book of the English Oak

[sean]

The Fingeringhoe oak is still there & doing fine,it got heavily hacked some years ago,& they planted another to replace it if it failed,it didnt,& is doing fine,I helped remove the one planted as a replacement last summer as it was encroaching onto the main tree,which was deadwooded at the same time.

 

Thats good to hear.....cheers Geoff......always was a fine tree.

[sean]

Heres the Fingringhoe Oak as recorded on Ancient Tree Forum

 

http://www.ancient-tree-hunt.org.uk/recording/tree.htm?tree=3bd5ab43-af08-47bd-860a-8868edcf3b32

[geoff]

Heres the Fingringhoe Oak as recorded on Ancient Tree Forum

 

The Woodland Trust | Ancient Tree Hunt | Tree details

 

Come a sunny day I will take a blatt up there on my bike & get some pics.

[geoff]

And I did, because it was!

 

 

So here we go ladies & gentlemen, ( & I use the term loosely), I give you the Fingeringhoe Oak!

 

 

Bear in mind the bike is 2.5m long, & I stood it about 8m in front of the tree.

 

IMG_1562 by geoff321, on Flickr

IMG_1557 by geoff321, on Flickr

[felixthelogchopper]

Nice lunge as well, mate.

[geoff]

Nice lunge as well, mate.

 

Thanks mate, that will be my big wood lunge!

[felixthelogchopper]

Thanks mate, that will be my big wood lunge!

 

I never knew you were an Everley Brothers fan;

 

 

'Dream, dream, dream,

Dream, dream, dream,

Dream, dream, dream'

 

[geoff]

I never knew you were an Everley Brothers fan;

 

 

'Dream, dream, dream,

Dream, dream, dream,

Dream, dream, dream'

 

 

You seem to know it better than me!

[felixthelogchopper]

You seem to know it better than me!

 

That's because I'm young enough to still remember it.

[sloth]

Ah the fingeringhoe oak, what a tree! I put some pics here a while back http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?p=710215

Didn't realise it was atf recorded, be interesting to see how my measurements compare. When was it recorded, by an arbtalker?

As an aside I met Geoff a couple of weeks ago, what a nice guy, and thanks for the work How's the bike going?